5+1 Irwini catfish
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Sorry to see it go, but 15 years is still a great accomplishment.
Is there any plant content to the pellets you feed? I've found that even carnivorous catfish eat them with gusto, and I've used them to slim down fish when they've grown too fatty. The "algae wafers" marketed for fish still contain a significant amount of protein and fat, but there are livestock supplements for cows and horses that are essentially pure blocks of algae.
Is there any plant content to the pellets you feed? I've found that even carnivorous catfish eat them with gusto, and I've used them to slim down fish when they've grown too fatty. The "algae wafers" marketed for fish still contain a significant amount of protein and fat, but there are livestock supplements for cows and horses that are essentially pure blocks of algae.
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Conchonius
It sounds like a nice common sense approach but I didn't understand what exact feed you used to slim down your fish. Was it the algae wafers, which you appear to imply are not devoid enough of protein and fat, or the cattle/horse supplements, or else?
Usually pellets and wafers etc. include or are coated with some processed shrimp or fish flavor to make them more attractive and palatable to fish, so fish do not realize what's inside the pellet - plant or animal matter, aquatic or terrestrial, good, bad or the ugly.
The generalist NLS pellets we use do contain a significant portion of algae. I'll assume by plant content you don't mean terrestrial legumes, wheat, corn, etc. because all cheap pellets are made of those and I assume that's what led to unhealthy fat deposits in our irwini.
Could you possibly please fetch a link or a few to the cattle and horse supplements you mention so we could do some homework?
Usually pellets and wafers etc. include or are coated with some processed shrimp or fish flavor to make them more attractive and palatable to fish, so fish do not realize what's inside the pellet - plant or animal matter, aquatic or terrestrial, good, bad or the ugly.
The generalist NLS pellets we use do contain a significant portion of algae. I'll assume by plant content you don't mean terrestrial legumes, wheat, corn, etc. because all cheap pellets are made of those and I assume that's what led to unhealthy fat deposits in our irwini.
Could you possibly please fetch a link or a few to the cattle and horse supplements you mention so we could do some homework?
